'I hope to be an NFL player in a year': Christian Wade on his exit from rugby

The former Wasps winger left behind a successful career for an uncertain path to the world’s richest league. But he does not lack determinationChristian Wade speaks to the Guardian from the back of a New York cab. Coventry it isn’t but the winger who left Wasps to shoot for the NFL hasn’t entirely succumbed to American glamour. For one thing it is typically bitterly cold. For another, halfway into our second question his car enters the Lincoln Tunnel, a squalid transit hell under the oily Hudson.He’s been traveling a lot and he yawns now and then but he’s in the States, trying to reach the big…